re: Robert e lee day

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I think I kind of see where you're going

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I appreciate that, you do. But don't think we're that close.

Insert often repeated argument about taxes between the north and south. Cheap cotton. Expensive industrial products. Tariffs ect for causing the secession. I think most people know that stuff.

But everything we think about the war is off, so the conclusion that we come to that it's very much related to slavery, if not entirely about it, should have a different meaning after we understood more.

Usually you don't hear about Europe's elite class triggering many of the economic problems. These guys funded and antagonized both sides. They poked at the fire for years, really all throughout the 1800s. They wanted to reclaim the power they lost in the revolution. A civil war would be a great way to do it, and it worked.

All throughout the 1800s the euro-banking cartel tried to destroy the country by establishing a central bank here -- it was stopped and kicked out twice, most famously by Andrew Jackson.

Insert story about Lincoln going off-script and creating money in the US Treasury (as it's intended to be created) instead of taking loans from the privately owned central banks which would have enriched the euro-bankers. Note: that money was taken out of circulation after his assignation -- just as it was after JFK, the only other president to make money in the US Treasury, was killed.

The war was about European elite and that banking block regaining control of America.

There's also a real discussion to be had on northern factory workers and poor immigrants vs black slaves and the notion of a slave class. Of course there are going to be differences, some worse and some not as worse on both sides. But there's a real talk on that. At the end of it, no matter how far you want to take it, you should have a different view of southern slavery and its context in the world.

There's obviously so much more. Idk. I feel like people who say it was about slavery and how can you not see that that was the main factor are pressing the easy button and it's easy to do so, on the surface it's undeniable.